How Twitter can teach you ArchiCAD
October 3, 2014
How does one go about learning ArchiCAD? Joining Twitter to follow one particular ArchiCAD guru is a good start.
ARCHICAD-Talk Forum
Ten Years of ArchiCAD Talk Forum
October 24, 2013
I can’t believe that the ArchiCAD Talk Forum is ten years old. That’s amazing. As is the fact that many of the original experts are still active. Thank You!
ArchiCAD Heroes
August 6, 2012
Shoegnome would never have existed if I wasn’t such a huge fan of Onland.info. I’ve gushed over James Murray’s blog before. He stopped updating his site about the time I started writing mine, so I feel a responsibility to carry the torch he held for so many years. Most of his 679 posts are still just as relevant now as they were when James wrote them. When I was teaching
All the Changes in ArchiCAD 16 that we love, but won’t be Advertised
July 30, 2012
There are a lot of little tweaks in every version of ArchiCAD that don’t get top billing. Or any billing at all. Yet some of these changes are huge and exciting for us nerdy, obsessive users. There is a great list (started by ArchiCAD Hero Link Ellis) from last year on the ArchiCAD forum detailing all these unannounced changes for ArchiCAD 15. I wrote a post about it. Discover both
BIM Components and the ArchiCAD Facebook Page (and Pacifiers)
July 23, 2012
Today ArchiCAD posted a comment on their facebook page: Do you have object ideas to expand the available GDL content on BIMcomponents.com? Let us know in a comment here! Some of your wishes will be programmed by professional GDL developers and shared with all of you through the BIMcomponents.com portal. We are looking for objects that cannot be found in the standard ArchiCAD library. Just comment with a concise description
Adventures in GDL – guest blogger Jeroen de Bruin talks about being a GDL Specialist
August 28, 2011
My adventure started after finishing a bachelor in architecture and working in several architects’ offices. I found that drafting in 2D really annoyed me: First draw the floor plan, then the elevations, manually add in shadows… and then the architect changes the design and you start over again. Those painstaking hours of checking if the elevation matched the floor plan… If only there had been an ArchiCAD feature like Trace
ArchiCAD School 2012/2013 in the USA?
August 14, 2011
There’s been a lot of talk on LinkedIn about trying to do an ArchiCAD School similar to the Spring / Summer / Winter Schools that are done in Europe. What level of interest is there for doing one in the United States and/or Canada sometime in 2012 or 2013? I’ve created a poll on the forum. Take a moment and vote. And then add your voice to the discussion on
All the Changes in ArchiCAD 15 that we love, but won’t be Advertised
July 28, 2011
Most of us have read about ArchiCAD 15 on the ArchicadWiki. If you want a refresher, read this and also the official changes guide. Many of us are even using ArchiCAD 15 on a daily basis and enjoying the new features like the shell tool and the 3D editing planes. But have you also read this list from the forum: Undocumented Changes in V15. There are a lot of little
Do You remember when the Explore Model method of navigating in 3D first appeared?
July 20, 2011
While doing some research for an article I wrote for ArchiMAG, I found an amazing forum post from the release of version 10. Take a quick walk down memory lane. It’s too bad Graphisoft took out that functionality with the first ArchiCAD 10 hotfix. It was a fun few weeks. I still miss those options. By the way, my article should be in the fall ArchiMAG issue and has almost